Universal Serial Bus (USB) 3.0 is formally referred to as SuperSpeed USB in order to complement USB 2.0's widely ignored full name, "Hi-Speed USB. " Considering that the 3.0 interconnect Spec is claimed to offer physical-layer throughput speeds of up to 5Gbps (gigabits per second), compared to USB 2.0's 480Mbps (megabits per second), a little hyperbole may be excused